Trump's gone too far. It's bad enough I have to listen to him when I'm awake but last night, he turned up in a dream I had. It wasn't much of a dream but it was in three acts…
Act One was Trump announcing something about fried chicken. It wasn't clear what he was going to do about fried chicken but he was going to do something.
Act Two was all the news shows and all the pundits discussing just what Trump had in mind about fried chicken and trying to parse his vague, ambiguous statements. Stephen Colbert was doing jokes about Trump's new laws governing fried chicken and all my friends were calling me to ask, "What do you think Trump's going to do about fried chicken?" and there was a general panic that he was going to ban it or insist we all buy Trump-brand fried chicken or maybe he'd deregulate gravy — oh, and he was going to put Jared in charge of chicken soup except that he couldn't get a security clearance from Colonel Sanders…
And then Act Three was the walkback the next day when it turns out that Trump probably isn't going to do anything about fried chicken or if he is, he doesn't know what or when yet and might still change his mind. I think the whole dream was inspired by the announcement that he's maybe possibly going to do something about Korea which might include a meeting or might not and might possibly include a predetermined agenda if it happens at all which it might not.
Once again, I am reminded of my favorite quote about covering the news, which was uttered by the late Jack Germond. He said, "The trouble with reporting is that we aren't paid to say 'I don't know' — so we have to say something even when we don't know."